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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.

Brian K. Vaughan

I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Perspective Stills
I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Imaginative Real Stories
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Easter Hurt School
Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Eventually Everyone Same Strangers
To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Ethnicity Gay Writing
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Afraid Love Without World
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Fiction Stars Stories War
I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Internet Privacy Thinking
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Bichest Terror Yeah
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Budgets Comic Imagination
We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Girl Stand
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Comic Ends Stories
The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artist Giving Writing
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Knowing Life Stand True

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